By ten the next morning, the video had climbed to No. 30 on TikTok's trending list.
If you clicked on No. 30 on TikTok's trending list, this video was the first result.
Starting that day, people learned about the monk called "Beat Wang Yi" not only in Chang'an Province, but across the country.
Many players tagged Wang Yi in the comments under the video, asking him to deal with this "Beat Wang Yi."
Wang Yi happened to come across the video while scrolling through TikTok. He found it pretty amusing.
I'm supposed to beat myself?
I can't do that.
Wang Yi treated all the online comments and insults as a joke. He just laughed them off. He didn't join in the discussion, much less get angry about it.
There were no classes the next day, but Wang Yi still trained with the two kids.
For a seven-year-old, Wang Shiyu's training intensity was already far beyond that of other kids his age.
His training intensity and workload were already comparable to those of the eleven- and twelve-year-olds at the basketball school.
The other kids rested on Saturdays and Sundays, but Wang Shiyu kept training.
Sometimes even Wang Yi couldn't bear to watch and ordered his son to take a break.
After all, as an athlete, he knew all too well what harm overtraining could do, especially to children who were still growing.
Wang Yi knew, of course, that Wang Shiyu was training so obsessively to fulfill his promise to beat the Japanese streetball players three years later.
But training needed to alternate between exertion and rest. You couldn't keep pushing yourself nonstop.
As for Wang Shiying, she was much more relaxed about training.
Although being defeated by Wang Shiyu had once prompted her to turn over a new leaf and train